THE WHITFIELD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Shale Valleys setting.
Whitfield County has 290.4 square miles of land in Georgia. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Whitfield County: Southern Shale Valleys, Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills, Southern Sandstone Ridges.
Long, roughly parallel ridges and valleys follow folded and faulted rock layers. Limestone valleys, sandstone ridges and other geologic contrasts produce varied terrain and numerous regional springs and caves.
Regional context: Ridge and Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Whitfield County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Shale Valleys46%
- Southern Limestone/Dolomite Valleys and Low Rolling Hills41.7%
- Southern Sandstone Ridges12.3%
Finding your parcel within Whitfield County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Whitfield County, including Dalton, Cohutta, Varnell. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Whitfield County by land and water
The Census records 0.61 square miles of water within Whitfield County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Whitfield County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Whitfield County has 13.6 times the land area of nearby Dalton city (21.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Catoosa County, Gordon County, Murray County, Walker County within Georgia. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.